El Hadji Diouf vows to continue Rafa Benitez's Bolton bogey

El Hadji Diouf has vowed to continue Rafa Benitez's Bolton bogey and heap more misery on the Liverpool boss.

El Hadji Diouf has vowed to continue Rafa Benitez's Bolton bogey and heap more misery on the Liverpool boss.

Benitez has come to dread this fixture and he has not won at the Reebok in his three previous attempts.

He suffered his first Premier League defeat there in August 2004 when Sam Allardyce gave him a crash course in the not-so-finer points of the English game, leaving the shocked Spaniard to say: "This is not football."

Allardyce is immensely proud of his unbeaten record against his hated rival and Diouf claims Benitez has never been able to cope with Bolton at the Reebok.

The Senegalese star believes Benitez will come a cropper again on Sunday because new boss Gary Megson has copied the style of Allardyce.

Diouf, who was sold by Benitez when he charge at Anfield, said: "We have done very well against Liverpool over the years as we have always stuck to playing the football which suits us.

"We have played our football and have always believed in ourselves. We need to do that again.

"Liverpool are a good team with good players, but if we play our football then we can beat them like we do every season.

"Every game is a big game for us now, not just because we're playing Liverpool or Man United. We need to win football games and be fantastic."

Bolton at the Reebok has been a bogey fixture for Liverpool over the past 11 years and they have managed only one win in seven visits.

Diouf believes Bolton's Euro success has given them the confidence to continue Liverpool's terrible run and boost Wanderers in their survival battle.

"We just need to be strong when we play in the Premier League," said the Kop flop. "We must play like we play in the UEFA Cup.

"Nobody believed in us in Europe, but we showed everyone what we can do. We have a team that is a match for anyone in our league and look at our results against Bayern Munich and Atletico Madrid.

"We must do the same against Liverpool. If we can play every week like we did in those European games, Bolton will stay up.

"We just need to stick to what we are good at and believe in ourselves."